Natchez National Cemetery

Natchez National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Natchez overlooking the Mississippi River in Adams County, Mississippi. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 25.7 acres (10.4 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 7,154 interments.

Natchez National Cemetery
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Natchez National Cemetery
Location41 Cemetery Rd., Natchez, Mississippi
Coordinates31.575026°N 91.393762°W / 31.575026; -91.393762
Built1866
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPSCivil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP reference No.99001387
Added to NRHPNovember 22, 1999[1]

History

The original site of the cemetery was purchased from local residents in 1866, to inter Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. Remains from battlefield and post cemeteries from around the region were brought to the cemetery to be reinterred. In 1866 a large number of soldiers who were buried in the levees of the west bank of the Mississippi River were exhumed and transferred to the National Cemetery.

Natchez National Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Notable interments

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. The Mississippi Encyclopedia

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